Friday Folio: August 18, 2023

Book banning is bad enough, but using ChatGPT to do it? Double appalling, Iowa.
Tor has an interesting piece on books you’ll never read again — and not because you hated them.
I missed that The Salt Path by Raynor Winn, which is so good it makes me want to quit writing, is being turned into a movie. Don’t mess it up!
Via Publisher’s Weekly: “Marjane Starapi is Done With Comics, but Never Art or Revolution.”
Them has a run down of all the queer books Isaac reads in the series Heartstopper.
The Washington Post looked into the threat AI poses to audiobook narrators.
I’m not going to get into all the Blind Side news, but since this came up in the comments on my last post, I am going to link to Michael Lewis’ statement on it, which is not great. What an absolute mess.
Photo taken by me on August 17, 2023 in Haddon Heights, N.J.